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Jade and iron : Latin American tales from two cultures
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Jade and iron : Latin American tales from two cultures

Author: Hugh Hazelton; Patricia Aldana; Luis Garay
Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : Douglas & McIntyre, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Fourteen folktales on a variety of subjects and from many regions in Latin America are retold in this large-format picture book.
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Genre/Form: Folklore
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Jade and iron.
Toronto ; Buffalo : Douglas & McIntyre, c1996
(OCoLC)657035391
Material Type: Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Hugh Hazelton; Patricia Aldana; Luis Garay
ISBN: 0888992564 9780888992567
OCLC Number: 35563617
Notes: "A Groundwood book."
Target Audience: "Ages 7 and up"--Book jacket.
Description: 64 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: The legend of Manioc : an Indian legend from southern Brazil / by Joel Ruffino dos Santos --
When mountains became gods : an Aztec legend from ancient Mexico / by Carlos Franco Sodja --
Maichak : a legend of the Pemon tribe of the plains of southern Venezuela / by the Ekaré Writers' Group --
Ñucu the worm : a story of the Chimane Indians of the Bolivian Amazon / by Jürgen Riester --
The gods of light : a legend of the Mapuche Indians of central Chile / by Alicia Morel --
How the opossum stole fire : a legend of the Cora Indians of western Mexico / by Fernando Benítez --
Devil's Gorge : an Indian legend of southern Chile / by Ana María Güiraldes --
The enchantress of Córdoba : a tale from colonial Mexico / by Francisco Serrano --
The black ship : a folktale from the island of Zapatera in Lake Nicaragua / by Pablo Antonio Cuadra --
The tears of Sombrero Grande : a Guatemalan folktale / by Luis Alfredo Arango --
Antonio and the thief : a folktale from Chile / by Saul Schkolnik --
Pedro Rimales, the healer : a folktale from Venezuela / by Rafael Rivero Oramas --
The horse of seven colors : a folktale from Guatemala / by Héctor Felipe Cruz Corzo --
Blanca and the wild man : a folktale from Venezuela / by Verónica Uribe and Carmen Diana Dearden.
Responsibility: translated by Hugh Hazelton ; edited by Patricia Aldana ; illustrated by Luis Garay.

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Fourteen folktales on a variety of subjects and from many regions in Latin America are retold in this large-format picture book.

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